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Voters react to Democratic wins in election

Granite State voters on Wednesday were reacting to the results of the 2012 election, when New Hampshire swung back to the Democrats.

President Barack Obama was elected to a second term, winning New Hampshire's four electoral votes. Granite Staters elected two Democratic challengers -- Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster -- to replace two Republican incumbents in the U.S. House.

Democratic candidate Maggie Hassan was elected to replace outgoing Gov. John Lynch.

Voter Caroline Murphy said she's happy Obama won.

"My company is discontinuing health care coverage in 2014, probably because of the Affordable Health Care Act, but because Obama is staying in, we're still going to have an option for affordable health care," she said.

Mitt Romney supporter Jeff Schultz said he doesn't think Obama will be able to get much done.

"If you can't get your ideas past Congress or the Senate, I really don't think it's going to make much of a difference, and it's tough to trust a guy who spends $400 million to run for president without any kind of an agenda," Schultz said.

Romney invested a lot of time and energy in New Hampshire, but it proved not to matter in the end.

"I think Romney did a good job, but I think in the end, it just came down to where the country wanted to go," said Matt Litchfield, of Concord.

Former Republican state Sen. Leo Fraser said he split his ballot for the first time in 25 years. He said he believes his party must change.

"I'm a Republican, but I've had the sense in the last three or four months that the Republicans weren't going to do well because of their philosophy."

One common area of agreement among Granite Staters seemed to be that they were happy they didn't have to see any more political ads for a while.

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